The Provincial Secretariat for Urban Planning and Environmental Protection shall, in accordance with the law and the Statute, perform the tasks of the provincial administration in the field of spatial and urban planning, related to the preparation of acts for the Assembly or the Provincial Government which shall: design, enact and implement documents on the spatial development of AP Vojvodina; design, enact and implement regional spatial plans and spatial plans for special purposes; propose measures and activities of the implementation programme of the spatial plan of the Republic of Serbia in the territory of AP Vojvodina, regional development plans and spatial plans for special purposes and monitor their implementation; establish a public company for spatial and urban planning and design and exercise founder’s rights thereof.
The Provincial Secretariat for Urban Planning and Environmental Protection shall perform executive, expert and development tasks of the provincial administration; conduct supervision and monitor the implementation of the regulations from Paragraph 1 of this Article. Within the scope of its competences, the Secretariat shall monitor, supervise and assist the work of public companies and public services, founded by AP Vojvodina.
The Provincial Secretariat for Urban Planning and Environmental Protection shall provide expert assistance and secure the funds for financing, i.e. co-financing of local self-governments for the design of spatial and urban planning documentation, projects by expert and non-governmental organisations, in the field of spatial planning, urban planning; conduct expert control and provide public inspection into regional spatial plans and spatial plans for specific purposes for the areas in the territory of AP Vojvodina; give prior consent and consent in the process of designing and enacting of spatial and urban plans of the local self-government units in the territory of AP Vojvodina and propose one- third of the members of the commission for expert control of spatial and urban plans in a self-government unit; take part in the work of commission and working bodies, established by the competent minister in charge of urban planning affairs and give opinion on the statute and other by-laws of the Republic Agency for Spatial Planning and the Engineer Chamber of Serbia.
The Provincial Secretariat for Urban Planning and Environmental Protection shall perform the conferred tasks of the state administration, in the field of spatial and urban planning, which were conferred to the authorities of AP Vojvodina, pursuant to the law.
The Provincial Secretariat for Urban Planning and Environmental Protection shall, in accordance with the law and Statute, perform the tasks of provincial administration in the field of environmental protection, regarding the preparation of the acts for the Assembly or the Provincial Government which shall: put a natural asset under protection; enact an environmental protection programme for the territory of AP Vojvodina; enact a monitoring programme, an external plan for protection against accidents and natural resources and asset management plans and programmes; establish a budget fund; establish the Provincial Institute for Nature Conservation and exercise the founder’s right thereof; declare a state of environmental endangerment in the territory of AP Vojvodina.
The Provincial Secretariat for Urban Planning and Environmental Protection shall perform executive, expert and development tasks of the provincial administration and monitor the implementation of regulations from Paragraph 5 of this Article. Within the scope of its competences, the Secretariat shall monitor, supervise and assist the work of public companies, institutions and public services, founded by AP Vojvodina.
The Provincial Secretariat for Urban Planning and Environmental Protection shall: control the exploitation and protection of natural resources and assets on the territory of AP Vojvodina; provide continuous control and monitoring of the state of the environment; give conditions for securing the measures and terms for the environment protection, upon the request of the competent body, in charge of preparing and enacting of spatial and urban plans, and on the grounds of the conditions and opinions of the competent expert organisations- take part in the process of preparing and enacting of spatial, urban and other plans (spatial plan and the grounds for the exploitation of agriculture soil, forest soil plan, water management plan and hunting management plan, as well as programmes for the improvement of fishing at the fishing areas and other plans).
The Provincial Secretariat for Urban Planning and Environmental Protection shall, in the field of environment improvement, fishing and managing the fish stock in fishing waters, and in accordance with the law, perform conferred tasks, which are in accordance with the law, conferred to the authorities of AP Vojvodina. The Provincial Secretariat for Urban Planning and Environmental Protection shall perform other tasks, when they are conferred in accordance with the law, Provincial Assembly decision or another regulation

Vladimir Galić

Provincial Secretary for Urban Planning and Environmental Protection

Vladimir Galić is the Provincial Secretary for Urban Planning and Environmental Protection and a member of the Serbian Progressive Party. He was born in 1972 in Kikinda, where he completed primary education and grammar school, followed by the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad.

Vladimir Galić is a lawyer by occupation and has practiced law since 1998. He has a law firm in Novi Sad.

On two occasions he worked as an advisor to the President of the Government of Republic of Serbia. He worked as the director of the Serbian Privatisation Agency in one term of office and was the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Vojvođanska Bank.

He was a deputy in the previous composition of the AP Vojvodina Assembly.